DestinationRx Partners With Women.com; New Alliance Provides Direct Access To Online Savings And Health Information For Women Nationwide.Business Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2001 DestinationRx (www.DestinationRx.com), the premier online comparison-shopping site for health, beauty and pharmaceutical products, today announced it has teamed up with Women.com (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : WOMN), a leading online destination for women, to provide wired women with savings on pharmaceutical, beauty and personal care items and to help them stay informed about healthcare. DestinationRx's proprietary, Web-spidering technology enables consumers to identify the lowest available prices on brand-name prescription drugs from dozens of reputable online pharmacies. The DestinationRx search engine can also find discounts of between 20--40 percent off retail prices on more than 20,000 health and beauty products. Women.com's four million registered members will be offered additional discounts and DestinationRx's `best deals' as a result of this partnership. Under the agreement, Women.com will provide advertising management services for DestinationRx, including the sale of advertising banners on DestinationRx's site. DestinationRx will also be featured in Women.com's Health and Fitness channel. The two companies are currently exploring additional opportunities to extend cost-savings and enhanced medical content to Women.com visitors. "Women.com is demonstrably committed to providing their members with relevant information to enhance their lives," said William I William I, king of England William I or William the Conqueror, 1027?–1087, king of England (1066–87). Earnest and resourceful, William was not only one of the greatest of English monarchs but a pivotal figure in European . Park, MD, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of DestinationRx. "Our site's ability to guide them to the most cost-efficient choices, in pharmaceuticals, beauty or personal care items, provides practical benefits." "Women.com is dedicated to providing its 9.3 million unique monthly visitors with the quality health content and resources we know they are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ," said Gina Garrubbo, EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition , Women.com. "Partnering with DestinationRx extends our capability to offer this highly sought after data. We are pleased to deliver DestinationRx's excellent savings on pharmaceutical, beauty and personal care items to our members and help women stay informed about healthcare." About DestinationRx DestinationRx is the premiere online shopping destination for health, beauty and pharmaceutical products. DestinationRx empowers consumers to make informed purchasing decisions by providing purchase-relevant content and pricing information on more than 20,000 items, including prescription medicines, over-the-counter medicines, health and beauty items, vitamins and herbal supplements, personal care items, and personal wellness products. DestinationRx uses a highly sophisticated proprietary crawler Also known as a "Web crawler," "spider," "ant," "robot" (bot) and "intelligent agent," a crawler is a program that searches for information on the Web. Crawlers are widely used by Web search engines to index all the pages on a site by following the links from page to page. search engine called SARAH Sarah or Sarai: see Sara. Sarah (flourished early 2nd millennium BC) In the Hebrew scriptures, the wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac. She was childless until age 90. , (Search All Related Affiliate Healthsites), to acquire and aggregate up-to-date product and price information from more than two dozen online pharmacies and health and wellness sites. DestinationRx has headquarters in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . For more information, please visit www.DestinationRx.com. About Women.com Among the top 50 most visited Internet properties, Women.com (Nasdaq:WOMN) is a leading women's Internet network offering programming, community, shopping and personalized services that are relevant, interesting and immediate to women online. Uniting some of the most highly read magazine titles in the world, such as Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping Good Housekeeping is a women's magazine owned by the Hearst Corporation, featuring articles about women's interests, product testing by The Good Housekeeping Institute, recipes, diet, health as well as literary articles. , Redbook and Prevention, Women.com incorporates its assets into a network that is 200,000 pages deep and 18 topical channels wide. Women.com offers expert advice, in-depth information and unique services and tools to assist visitors in every area of their lives, from health to home, parenting to career. Founded in 1992, Women.com is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , with major operations in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and offices in other U.S. locations. The Hearst Corporation currently holds a 46 percent equity position in Women.com. Other major shareholders include The Walt Disney Company, Rodale and Torstar Corporation. |
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